Auctions So You Just Bought a $450 Million Leonardo da Vinci Painting. Now What? From decoy trucks (yes, really) to tax wizardry, here's what happens after you win the most expensive painting in auction history. By Brian Boucher & Eileen Kinsella, Nov 21, 2017
Auctions A $50 Million Matisse From the Rockefeller Estate Is Expected to Break Records in an Epic Charity Auction A Rose Period Picasso, once belonging to Gertrude Stein, leads the sale at an estimated $70 million. By Henri Neuendorf, Nov 21, 2017
Auctions Beyond Leonardo: 11 Crucial Takeaways From Last Week’s $2.3 Billion New York Mega-Auctions From the best bargain to the biggest loser, here are our parting observations from last week's auction marathon. By Artnet News, Nov 21, 2017
Auctions Even a Prize-Winning Ferrari Couldn’t Add Much Zip to Sotheby’s Lethargic $310 Million Contemporary Sale A painting by Laura Owens provided rare sizzle, torching her previous auction high. By Brian Boucher, Nov 16, 2017
Auctions Phillips’s $114 Million Contemporary Sale, Led by Peter Doig, Brings the Art World Back to Earth Doig, Picasso, and Basquiat were the stars at the house's solid, un-flashy sale. By Henri Neuendorf, Nov 16, 2017
Auctions Christie’s Makes Market History With $786 Million Evening Sale Led by Record-Smashing Leonardo da Vinci It was the highest total for an evening sale since the house's November 2014 contemporary auction, the priciest ever held. By Eileen Kinsella & Caroline Goldstein, Nov 15, 2017
Auctions Timeline: How ‘Salvator Mundi’ Went From £45 to $450 Million in 59 Years The painting, marketed as the last Leonardo da Vinci in private hands, has a history fit for a feature film. By Artnet News, Nov 15, 2017
Auctions ‘Salvator Mundi,’ the Last Known Painting by Leonardo da Vinci Just Sold for $450.3 Million The 500-year-old painting is, by far, the most expensive work ever sold at auction. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 15, 2017
Auctions Sotheby’s Pulls Off a Sleepy But Solid $269.7 Million Impressionist Sale, Powered by Asian and Russian Bidders The atmosphere was far from electric, but the sale had some highs—including a record Chagall. By Brian Boucher, Nov 14, 2017
Auctions Jerry Saltz and Other Doubters Love to Hate Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’—But Here’s What the Experts Think The painting is set to be sold Wednesday, estimated at $100 million. Is it overhyped? By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 14, 2017
Auctions Meet the Extraordinary Art Collectors Behind the Top Lots Heading to Auction This Week A spotlight on several of the extraordinary art collectors whose work is heading to sale in the tentpole fall New York auctions By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 14, 2017
Auctions Van Gogh’s Moody Ploughman Pulls Christie’s to a $479 Million Imp-Mod Sale, Flying Past Expectations Though bidding felt sluggish at points, the marathon sale far exceeded presale estimates. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 13, 2017
Auctions Will New York’s Fall Auctions Break the $1 Billion Mark? Leonardo, Chagall, and Bacon Lead the Charge. Christie's shakes things up by dropping Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" into its contemporary sale. By Caroline Goldstein & Eileen Kinsella, Nov 8, 2017
Auctions “The Business and the Market Feel Good”: Sotheby’s Posts Better-Than-Expected Third Quarter Results A shift in the Hong Kong sale schedule boosted the company's bottom line. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 3, 2017
Auctions From Carrie Mae Weems to Czech Cubism, Here Are 5 Key Auctions to Watch this November From Dallas to London, see the best of the auction block this month By Artnet Price Database Team, Oct 31, 2017
